While I’m still waiting for most of my parts to arrive via ‘snail-mail’ from various parts of the world, my Meduino modules for the new receiver station have arrived just the other day, all well packed and safe and sound. I plan to write this build thread at a lighter level, in an attempt to help new builders with maybe not so much electronics and/or WeatherDuino experience. So I thought that I might kick off this build thread with a few words about this new (processor) module.
As you may have noticed already, the new WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS receiver station uses a new processor module. The new processor module looks a little different to the old Arduino Nano that we have been using for some time with WeatherDuino. The new processor module for the receiver station is the Meduino Mega2560 Pro Mini (Note - the transmitter and the wireless display still use the Arduino Nano module).
There are a few differences apart from the slightly larger form factor, however probably the most notable for us is the increased memory space (256K of RAM and 8K of SRAM). For a while now we have been pretty maxed out on the Nano module (memory) and the new module will allow the addition of new features and functions. A breath of fresh air for WeatherDuino and a credit to WerkAG for all of the R&D put into this new receiver station. If your new to this forum and reading this information for the first time and would like to read more about the new Pro2 PLUS, please refer to WerkAG’s Overview post at the following URL:
http://www.meteocercal.info/forum/Thread...r-Overview
From a programming point of view we continue to use the Arduino IDE software. The current version at the time of writing is v1.8.1 and it is downloadable from the Arduino website at the following URL:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software
As I'm still waiting for my boards to arrive, next I'll go into a little bit of information on how to test your new Meduino Mega2560 Pro Mini module and get setup on your computer with the Arduino IDE software.
Mark R
As you may have noticed already, the new WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS receiver station uses a new processor module. The new processor module looks a little different to the old Arduino Nano that we have been using for some time with WeatherDuino. The new processor module for the receiver station is the Meduino Mega2560 Pro Mini (Note - the transmitter and the wireless display still use the Arduino Nano module).
There are a few differences apart from the slightly larger form factor, however probably the most notable for us is the increased memory space (256K of RAM and 8K of SRAM). For a while now we have been pretty maxed out on the Nano module (memory) and the new module will allow the addition of new features and functions. A breath of fresh air for WeatherDuino and a credit to WerkAG for all of the R&D put into this new receiver station. If your new to this forum and reading this information for the first time and would like to read more about the new Pro2 PLUS, please refer to WerkAG’s Overview post at the following URL:
http://www.meteocercal.info/forum/Thread...r-Overview
From a programming point of view we continue to use the Arduino IDE software. The current version at the time of writing is v1.8.1 and it is downloadable from the Arduino website at the following URL:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software
As I'm still waiting for my boards to arrive, next I'll go into a little bit of information on how to test your new Meduino Mega2560 Pro Mini module and get setup on your computer with the Arduino IDE software.
Mark R